{"id":647880,"date":"2026-05-03T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647880\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:46:08","slug":"lightnings-victor-hedman-remains-out-for-game-7-vs-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647880\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning&#8217;s Victor Hedman remains out for Game 7 vs. Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"tampa-bay-lightning\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> will not see their captain return for their win-or-go-home matchup against the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Game 6, Cooper indicated Hedman could be an option if the series was extended. <\/p>\n<p>The defenceman has not played since March 19. <\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Swede \u2014 a Conn Smythe Trophy winner as playoff MVP in 2020 \u2014 took a temporary leave for personal reasons on March 25, rejoining the team early in the first-round series.<\/p>\n<p>He was limited to 33 games in the regular season, posting one goal and 16 assists after also missing time due to elbow surgery and an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the do-or-die Game 7 on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ with coverage beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET \/ 2:30 p.m. PT. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning will not see their captain return for their win-or-go-home matchup against the Montreal Canadiens.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-647880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}